Category Archives: Faith
God is creator
Micah and I have been home by ourselves for most of two Saturdays since Bryan and the girls have been gone for Cubetcha (the best named Rubik’s cube competition ever) and October’s Bible Quiz Meet (where my little nano took … Continue reading
Shattered
The first time happened a few weeks ago. Emma was making oatmeal, and the glass pickle jar that held my raw sugar slipped from her hands and fell from the top shelf of the pantry onto the kitchen floor and … Continue reading
Quiet time when there is no quiet
I really like getting up around 6 or 6:30 and settling in with my Bible before the girls get up. But there are problems with that at our house. The first is that I just don’t get enough sleep right … Continue reading
A Story of Many Small Graces
A few years back, this happened (which is worth a read just for the cute stories about the chickies). Which led to me having a surgery (back posts dated 6/4/2008 and following detail that icky little journey). Afterwards, I looked … Continue reading
Blossom heaven
It’s already been said that my girls like to climb trees. A particularly wonderful time for climbing our apple trees is when they are in full bloom. It was a very pretty year for apple blossoms this year, and Emma … Continue reading
Musings-Plastic versus Purposeful
Our sermon today was from Revelation on the church at Sardis. This was the church that looked like it was living but it was really dead. Our pastor mentioned some of the motions we might go through that do not … Continue reading
What I’m learning from my girls and pictures
The girls’ best friends (from the same family) got sick this week with a fever. I remarked that I hoped that the girls didn’t get sick from being exposed to them this week at day camp. Emma replied “Yeah, but … Continue reading
Reminders
Yesterday, our pastor said something I completely agree with. He said that he had trouble understanding how people can refuse the gift of God, salvation. And then I thought, you might have said yes to the gift of salvation, but … Continue reading
Beautiful
Emma keeps telling me lately that I look beautiful. My gut reaction is: What are you talking about? My clothes are stained with milk and spit up. I probably didn’t even comb my hair today, let alone style it. I’m … Continue reading
Happy Valentine’s Day!
How great is it that my passage in my reading for today was Romans 8? 35Â Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36Â As it … Continue reading